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Fashion show sets the trend at Glamorgan fresher’s week

 October 3, 2011

  First year fashion students from the University of Glamorgan have ended fresher's week in style with a stunning fashion show.

The students put together the DIY Couture 2011 fashion show during their first week at the university’s Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries. The first years used an impromptu catwalk at the school’s ATRiuM campus to display their creations.The show made a strong impression on teaching staff at the university’s Division of Fashion and Retail Design.

“It’s very promising to see such good work at this early stage in the course” said BA (Hons) Fashion Promotion Award Leader Angela Biggins. “The whole teaching team were just so impressed. The designs created for the show were absolutely fantastic, and the students organising and promoting the event were extremely professional. I’m already looking forward to seeing what they’ll be capable of this time next year.”

 
BA (Hons) Fashion Design students created the striking outfits for the show from used, discarded and recycled materials including everything from bin bags to magazines and fabric scraps.

Meanwhile, BA (Hons) Fashion Promotion first years were tasked with finding models for the designer’s creations and publicising the event, as well as organising the all important after-show party.

“The fashion show was such a good experience” said 19 year old fashion promotion student Hayley Jones from Caerphilly. “Every single student had input in the show – we all contributed in different ways and all worked extremely hard, whether it was scouting and selecting models, designing leaflets, promoting the show or designing and making dresses. It was extremely challenging, but an exciting and new experience. I would love to do again – all the hard work definitely paid off in the end.”

Fashion design student Conrad Dawney, 19 from Llanelli also enjoyed taking part. “I loved the show, it was my first one” said Conrad. “The best part was seeing my garment coming down the runway, I felt very proud of myself. We only had two days to create our outfits and it was very challenging.”

Both Conrad and Hayley have enjoyed their first taste of student life at Glamorgan. “University has been amazing so far” said Hayley, who hopes to work as a fashion buyer after university. “I’ve met so many amazing people in the short time i have been here. The course is challenging, but it’s exciting and enjoyable at the same time, and I’m constantly learning new things.”

View a slideshow of images from the show below, or by visiting our Flickr pages.

London fashion week

Estethica at London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2013

 

With only a few days until London Fashion Week, one of the world’s highest profile fashion events, kicks off, we’re very excited to see what new sustainable and ethical fashions will be featured in this year’s Estethica exhibition.

Since its launch by the British Fashion Council in 2006, Estethica has become one of the industry’s leading showcases of eco sustainable design, supporting over 100 innovative designers and promoting awareness about ethical fashion across the globe. All designers featured in the Estethica exhibition are chosen for their dedication to working sustainably as well as for their design quality. Designers must abide by at least one of Estethica’s principles; fair trade and ethical practice in the production process, the use of organic materials and the use of recycled and upcycled fabrics.

 

Estethica’s special guest brand for LFW A/W13 is Veja, a French footwear and accessories brand, which combines better conditions for Brazilian farmers with fashion, fair trade and ecology. Established in 2004, Veja works directly with small producer co-operatives, using materials such as organic cotton, wild Amazonian rubber and acacia – tanned leather to create shoes and accessories for the European market.

London Fashion Week

This picture above represents the Central Saint Martins MA show, which proved to be an outstanding spectacle, which could only be expected from the graduates of such a prestigious school. Luke Brooks, Chloe award winner and one of tonight's joint winners presented us with a captivating collection that spelt out punk rebellion mixed with artistic expression. 

When reading this article,  it was interesting to know that Anne Thorbjornsen, recipient of the Armani Bursary, presented the public with flowing draped pieces with kaleidoscopic embellishments made in wood cut outs. Pinned and tucked to create unusal shapes, the clothing was loose and soft, made more fierce by wooden spear constructions used to decorate, giving us the modern warrior. Mei Lim-Cooper, recipient of L'Oreal Bursary, gave us unusual knitwear looks that appeared dismantled; old shapes taken apart to make way for the new. Layered over one another in various colours and distorted shapes the pieces resembled heavy chain mail, a ready for battle look but with a feminine edge thanks to the cream colours used and unusual forms created in order to wrap the knits around the female body.

The designer, Yong Kyun Shin gave the public a robot-esque look, using an assortment of materials and textures such as wire springs and complex ruching to create this sculptured collection that saw models wearing heavily pleated items in dark greys and blacks combined with thick velvets and exaggerated shoulders for added structure. Kenji Kawasumi focused on menswear designs for AW12 presenting box shaped jackets alongside cropped trousers in an unusual polystyrene coated knit. An example of next age fabric finishes, the designer provided foam trousers and oversized jumpers in what looked like recycled materials, emphasising the importance of the Eco message.

 

Estefania Cortes Harker's collection was all about the glitter. The Pringle Award winner showed his collection of slit skirts, boxy shirts and elaborate dresses in an array of glitter fabrics ranging from blue, pink, gold and silver. Art deco, abstract cut outs hung off the front of the dresses which boasted peep hole laser cut outs around the necklines too. Plastic fantastic and artistic craftsmanship are the best ways to sum up Helen Lawrence's AW12 show, as the Central Saint Martins MA graduate gave us abstract, asymmetric dresses and tops made up of patchwork felt panels fused together with what at first appeared to be rough visible stitching but after a closer look turned out to be zigzag streams of plastic black glue, giving a graphic doodle-like effect to this unique collection. Under these surreal constellations of patchwork, models donned transparent plastic culottes, bolted together with brass pins, adding a futuristic feel to Lawrence's already distinguished collection.

The designer Yifang Wan,  showed his simple collection inspired by the East, with kimono style garments fastened with large wooden belts instead of sashes accentuating the waist and giving a surreal 3-D perspective of the clothing. Elegant and simple, garments included wide billowing trousers and heavy cape-like overgarments with deep slits to reveal the tailored pieces underneath. Yulia Kondranina used boning and wired structures as foundations for her tassel-fest collection. Tiered hoops were looped around the bust, waist and hips to support the tasselled drapery, which was even attached to hooded pieces to create veils that obscured the model's face. All pieces appeared in either black and white creating stark contrasts of the dark and the serene in this inspiring show. Sculptural and feminine, Yulia used wire supports even around trouser legs to create beautiful twists of tassels that snake around the female body.

He started his career as a stylist in the late 90’s, working with MTV, ID magazine, and now famed creative director and designer Nicola Formichetti. He is the John Wayne of the eco-fashion and up-cycling movement with the axiom ‘rejection breeds re-invention’; he does what he wants and, luckily for society, what he wants is “an exclusive garment that compliments the raw energy that defines ‘street style’ and all of what we see in the designer collections”, but carefully utilizing the ‘sustainable canvas’ as a positive way forward using ‘New World Textiles`.

upcycling at london fashion week

Upcycling to strut its stuff at London Fashion Week

Liora Lassalle, the winner of this year's sustainable fashion award, the Estethica / Veolia Re-Source competition, will launch her first collection during London Fashion WeekFebruary 15 - 19 2013.

Lassalle has produced an upcycled capsule collection supported by a mentoring programme sponsored by recycling and waste management company Veolia.

The collaboration between Estethica, the British Fashion Council's (BFC) initiative for sustainable fashion, and Veolia Environmental Services, aims to identify and nurture students to develop creative and sustainable solutions in fashion.

As well as reusing old work wear from Veolia's staff, Lassalle has also designed a collection of jeans created from reclaimed denim donated by denim brand, Pier.

Veolia Environmental Services chief executive Estelle Brachlianoff said: "We are delighted that the Re-Source competition has given Liora the opportunity to not only learn important tools for creating upcycled fashion, but to also launch a collection within her first year of graduating from college.

"Her designs reuse old high visual jackets from our employees that would have been recycled, but instead have been turned into haute couture designs."

All Estethica designers adhere to at least one of the three Estethica principles of fair-trade and ethical practices, use organic and recycled materials and are selected for both their ethical credentials and design excellence.

BFC CEO Caroline Rush added: "Liora Lassalle's upcycling collection is the first collection commissioned by Estethica to a BA graduate from Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design with support from Veolia.

"Liora's debut collection launches a new phase for the Estethica mentoring scheme and for its support to designers to develop sustainable solutions." 

Fashion Shows
I also researched fashion designers who have used 'waste' to create new clothing.
Junk to Funk

Fashion Shows

Junk to Funk is a project by a collection of artists that makes clothing out of items we see as 'waste'. The call there clothing 'Trashion' as it mixes fashion with trash. They're fashion shows make you think differently about waste and they address soiciety's mass consumption habits which makes you think about items you dispose of. By making the clothes visually striking raises awareness about the impact of consumption. The collection is very inspiring as it shows you what solutions could be done for a more sustainable fashion choice. When talking about waste they said:
Imagine a world in which there was no such thing as trash; that everything that we “threw away” was perceived as a valuable resource, used to create something new or as a nutrient for the earth. What if long-lasting and repairable purchases ruled over cheap prices, durable was more convenient than disposables, and we valued doing stuff instead of buying stuff? Consider that low-impact doesn’t mean sacrifice, but is a means to reclaim our time, money and pursuit of happiness. What if the ultimate measure of coolness was how little you bought, how much you shared and how much you creatively reused?

The Sustainable Fashion Show
On the opening day of London fashion week, there was the first every Sustainable fashion show. The fashion consisted of fashion designers such as Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney showcasing work that used recycled materials and materials that was ethically fashion. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, was there at the fashion show he had to say this about it, 'This fashion show proves that eco-fashion and sustainable-chic, which are often associated only with macrobiotic yogurt, hemp skirts and raffia work, can be funny, elegant and commercial'